Improvement in vapor-burners



SAMUEL RUST, Jr.

Vapor-Burner.

N0. 127,711. Patented J'une.11,1872.

Attest.

Inventor.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL RUST, JR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO SAMUEL WILLIAMSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,711, dated June 11, 1872.

' shape, as hereinafter shown, thus enabling the gas to be steadily consumed however warm the burner becomes.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a side elevation of one variety of my burner attached to a lamp ready for use. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the burner.

General Description.

A is a burner, made in two sections. The upper section B of the burner consists of a single piece of sheet-metal stamped or spun into shape. The upper knob D is made of an acornshape, cone-pointed above, and diminishing below in a regular conical form until it shrinks to a neck, M, which latter forms a connectingpassage between the knob and the main bulb of the burner. This neck M is formed by spinning down the plate between section B and knob D. The section B has a tapering conical form, and gradually enlarges to its lower edge. The lower section 0 of the main bulb is made of a single piece of sheet metal. It has a straight narrow neck, E, for the reception of the tube of the lamp. From the neck it gradually enlarges upward in the form of an inverted cone. The diameter of the circle formed by its outer upper edge is somewhat greater than the diameter of section B from edge to edge. In completing the burner, the two sections are brought together, and the outer edge of section 0 is brought up and lapped closely over the edge of section B so as to form a tight seam. Perforations are made at intervals in the periphery of section 0 just below the seam, and also at suitable intervals in the periphery of neck M.

The mode in which my burner operates is as follows: The neck of the burner is adjusted upon the top of the tube H of lamp K. In tube H is placed a wick reaching from the bottom of the lamp to the top of the tube. The lamp being filled with gasoline and tightly closed, a light is applied to the burner. The heat from this burner is communicated very rapidly by the thin sheet metal to the interior of the burner, gas is formed therein, and, im-

mediately passing out through the perforations, is ignited upon contact with the light. The burner then generates its own heat, and consequently its own gas.

The advantages of the acorn-shape of knob D and of the narrow neck M is to cause the gas to be generated steadily, and thus afi'ord asteadier flame from the jets.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the wick-tube H, the burner A, formed by double truncated cones united at their base, and surmounted with the top D of similar shape, but smaller size, substantially as shown, and for the purpose set MARION CARPENTER, J. G. CAMPBELL. 

